Excited to share our latest paper revealing ancient matrilineal haplotypes linked to sex-specific plumage differences in two cuckoos, predating speciation! Out today in Science Advances

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Short thread on what we found... 🧵 1/8

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For friends in the US, and for those of us that have BRAIN grants, this is terrible news. Read below on how we can collectively try to help ⬇️

This sucks. 40% cut in funding for the BRAIN Initiative. What does this say about our values as a society when we continue to underfund science?

If you were looking for evidence that isoforms are cool, all-pervasive in the 🧠, and everybody should study them at the single cell level, our work on mouse development and brain-region variability from the Hagen Tilgner / @[email protected] lab is now live Nature Neuroscience! 1/

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Short video on our recent discovery: Vocal learning complexity is linked with problem-solving skills in birds.
Thanks Science Magazine for the video and co-authors Mélanie Couture and Erich Jarvis. Complete article here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Excited that, as of today, in addition to my primary Rockefeller University and visiting The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU affiliations, I am officially affiliated with Emory University and Veterans Affairs to collaborate on dance neuroscience projects in populations with neurodegenerative diseases. 🧠

A beautiful example of #phylogenomic incongruence caused by recombination (or lack thereof) in the #avian Tree of Life. More broadly, this work demonstrates how #taxon and #locus sampling may influence #tree inference.

Congrats to the authors!👏🥳

#birds #biology #science

... Carsten Rahbek Mikkel H. Schierup Edward L Braun Erich Jarvis and senior authors Siavash Mirarab & Guojie Zhang. The project is part of B10K

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

News from Science ❤️ = Motor theory of vocal learning, coined by Erich Jarvis, duplication in both songbirds and humans (dLMC) is proximal to limbs in the motor cortex. Gesture therefore evolved in two ways for humans: primates + convergent evolution. Great for singing! youtu.be/MWw57esmx9E?fe…

I am devastated to hear this sad news... Larry was an incredible scientist and leader. He gave me unique support throughout my academic trajectory. My deepest condolences, Anne. Such a loss to so many.

Hi, Beth! 👋

We’re excited to introduce our NEW Chief Science Officer, Beth Shapiro, Ph.D. (Beth Shapiro)!

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Just hearing the very sad news that Frans de Waal has died. Had many wonderful interactions with him over many years & fondly remembered visiting him @ Yerkes & him staying with us in Cambridge. He also wrote the forward to my book Bird Brain. Farewell Frans RIP!

Check out this STAT interview with Rockefeller's Erich Jarvis to learn all about his work in vocal learning and beyond, including what his scientific 'Beyoncé moment' was 🎤

The brains of song birds may help scientists find treatments for vocal disorders like stuttering. STAT's Nicholas St. Fleur spoke with Erich Jarvis. trib.al/xRBe475

Florence Sabin was the first woman elected to National Academy of Sciences and the first woman to become full professor at Rockefeller. Dr. Sabin’s pioneering work on TB was pivotal in understanding the immunology of the disease. #WomensHistoryMonth

Researchers map genome for cats, dolphins, birds, and dozens of other animals #NBTintheNews Johns Hopkins Engineering engineering.jhu.edu/news/researche…

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